As the Vineyard struggles with a lack of primary care physicians, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is launching a new service it hopes can clear its extensive patient waiting list. 

The Aquinnah select board is eyeing a January special town meeting in order to pay for cost overruns associated with the Gay Head Lighthouse renovation from earlier this spring.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is in the market for a new principal, after school officials announced this week that interim principal Sean Mulvey will return to the school’s counseling department next year.

The Massachusetts Environmental Police have closed their investigation into an alligator carcass found in West Tisbury. Officials say it remains unclear how the gator ended up in the marsh of the Sepiessa Point Reservation.